Residents in Coatesville, Pa. may face longer emergency wait times as Tower Health officials announced on Tuesday that it will lose Medic 93 EMS services.
If Coatesville cannot find a new agency by the fall, if someone calls 911 with a medical emergency, paramedics will have to come from other municipalities that are already stretched too thin.
"That would be coming from a distance from what they are used to receiving when there was a paramedic unit stationed at Brandywine Hospital, says Chester County EMS Council Vice President, Matthew Eick. "It may be a paramedic from West Chester or Downingtown." Eick says while Western Chester County will feel the immediate impacts, county EMS services as a whole fear having to make more tough decisions as their costs grow, but their revenue doesn’t.
"To say EMS is facing a crisis sounds dramatic, but it’s also very accurate," he says. "There’s no way the other agencies throughout Chester County aren’t starting to see these same financial difficulties.""We will work to transition coverage of Advanced Life Support to other local responders within the municipalities affected by this change.
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